45:3B-2. Definitions
As used in this act:
a. "Audiologist" means any individual who practices audiology and who represents himself to the public by title or by description of services, under any title incorporating such terms as "audiology," "audiologist," "audiological," "audiologic," "hearing clinic," "hearing clinician," "hearing therapist," or any similar title or description of services, provided that the individual has met the eligibility requirements contained in section 8 and has been duly licensed under this act.
b. "Committee" means the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Advisory Committee.
c. "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, trust, association or other organization, except that only individuals may be licensed under this act.
d. "Practice of audiology" means the nonmedical and nonsurgical application of principles, methods, and procedures of measurement, testing, evaluation, consultation, counseling, instruction, and habilitation or rehabilitation related to hearing, its disorders and related communication impairments for the purpose of nonmedical diagnosis, prevention, identification, amelioration or modification of these disorders and conditions in individuals or groups of individuals with speech, language or hearing handicaps, or to individuals or groups of individuals for whom these handicapping conditions must be ruled out.
e. "Practice of speech-language pathology" means the nonmedical and nonsurgical application of principles, methods and procedures of measurement, prediction, nonmedical diagnosis, testing, counseling, consultation, habilitation and rehabilitation and instruction related to the development and disorders of speech, voice, and language for the purpose of preventing, ameliorating and modifying these disorders and conditions in individuals or groups of individuals with speech, language, or hearing handicaps, or to individuals or groups of individuals for whom these handicapping conditions must be ruled out.
f. "Speech-language pathologist" means an individual who practices speech-language pathology and who represents himself to the public by title or by description of services under any title incorporating such terms as "speech-language pathology," "speech-language pathologist," "speech pathology," "speech pathologist," "speech correction," "speech correctionist," "speech therapy," "speech therapist," "speech clinic," "speech clinician," "logopedist," "communicologist," "language therapist," "communication disorders specialist," "communication therapist," or any similar titles or description of services, provided that the individual has met the eligibility requirements contained in section 8 and has been duly licensed under this act.
L.1983, c. 420, s. 2, eff. Jan. 5, 1984.
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